Sunday, October 25, 2015

(NaturalNews) There have been a number of theories – some based on religious principles, some on philosophical ones – about what happens to our "souls" when we die.

Many people of various religious faiths, for example, believe there is a "heaven" or another pleasant afterlife for those who have led good, virtuous and moral lives on Earth.

But scientists have largely rejected such claims, mostly because science relies principally on documentable and replicable proof. Now, when it comes to human consciousness after the body dies, that's a different thing altogether.

With that in mind, a group of researchers at Southampton University in the United Kingdom recently conducted the largest-ever study about what happens to consciousness after death. The team has concluded that, while it is not known why or how, there nonetheless appears to be some consciousness and awareness for some time after physical death has occurred. That suggests consciousness and the body are intertwined in some fashion, but they may travel down a separate non-physiological path after what humans describe as death.

The research was lead by Dr. Sam Parnia, and the study has been published in the medical journal Resuscitation. The study involved more than 2,000 people who had suffered a cardiac arrest in the UK, United States and Austria.

'The evidence suggests consciousness is not annihilated'

The largest study of its kind to date, researchers applied rigorous methodology in order to weed out all cases that could have been based on individual impressions that might have been worthy but that nonetheless held no scientific interest.

The results found that 40 per cent of persons who survived a cardiac arrest were aware during the time they were clinically dead and before their hearts started beating once more.

"The evidence thus far suggests that in the first few minutes after death, consciousness is not annihilated. Whether it fades away afterwards, we do not know, but right after death, consciousness is not lost," Parnia said.

"We know the brain can't function when the heart has stopped beating," he continued. He has found that in this case conscious awareness appears to have continued for up to three minutes into the period when the heart wasn't beating, even though the brain typically shuts down within 20-30 seconds after the heart has stopped. Amazing!

"This is significant, since it has often been assumed that experiences in relation to death are likely hallucinations or illusions, occurring either before the heart stops or after the heart has been successfully restarted," Parnia further noted. "But not an experience corresponding with 'real' events when the heart isn't beating. Furthermore, the detailed recollections of visual awareness in this case were consistent with verified events."

"Potentially reversible process"

Parnia said that, in all, a total of 2,060 cardiac arrest patients were studied. Out of those patients, 330 survived, and of that number, 140 said they had been partly aware during their time of resuscitation.

"Thirty-nine per cent... described a perception of awareness, but did not have any explicit memory of events," he said, suggesting that "more people may have mental activity initially but then lose their memories, either due to the effects of brain injury or sedative drugs on memory recall."

"One in five said they had felt an unusual sense of peacefulness while nearly one third said time had slowed down or speeded up," the researcher continued, as quoted by Bioethics.Georgetown.edu. "Some recalled seeing a bright light; a golden flash or the sun shining. Others recounted feelings of fear or drowning or being dragged through deep water. 13 per cent said they had felt separated from their bodies and the same number said their sense[s] had been heightened."

The Way I See It......in the end, Parnia seems to strongly believe that, "contrary to perception, death is not a specific moment, but a potentially reversible process that occurs after any severe illness or accident causes the heart, lungs and brain to cease functioning." I would like to think he's right.

Good Ole Ben Carson tells it like it is and should be the in minds of every American forever more.

And he is not backing down. Of course his jelly-backed GOP co-candidates immediately joined the Left media in roundly condemning his stance as unconstitutional. But Carson is just one of the front runners in the Republican race who has never been a politician and his candidacy is candidly refreshing.

Naturally a Muslim can never be President unless he lies about where his allegiances lie.

Now, I don’t know whether Barack Obama is a Muslim or not, but he was certainly brought up as a Muslim and “educated” in an Indonesian Madrassa as a Muslim. His family is Muslim and he speaks Arabic with the fluency of a Muslim. He wears an Arabic inscribed ring and bends his knee to a filthy Saudi king and shows no deference, other than a handshake, to the Pope.

These are his words: “There is no sweeter sound on earth than the Muslim call to prayer” which, to 98 per cent of Americans, is a sound akin to scraping your fingers up a blackboard. “Non-Muslims must stop equating terrorism with Islam” he said.

Obama also says in words, “We are summoned to push back against those who would distort OUR religion for their nihilistic ends.” “The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.” “We will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over the centuries to shape the world — including in my own country.”

“Islam is peace.”“The Islamic State is not Islamic.” “As a student of history, I also know civilisation’s debt to Islam.” “Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.” (WTF?) “Islam has always been part of America.” “We will encourage more Americans to study in Muslim communities.”

More of Obama’s words: “These rituals remind us of the principles that we hold in common, and Islam’s role in advancing justice, progress, tolerance, and the dignity of all human beings.” “I made it clear that America is not – and will never be – at war with Islam.” “Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism – it is an important part of promoting peace.” And, “Throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.” ( What history book has this idiot been reading? )

Enough of Obama’s words, what about his deeds then? Well he has released six dangerous Islamic terrorists from Gitmo in exchange for an American deserter who converted to Islam.

During the Pope’s visit he quietly released another terrorist back to Yemen who was marked “never to be released”. He promoted and endorsed a mosque built adjacent to 9/11 ground zero. He refuses to confront ISIS. He is a card-carrying member of the Egyptian terrorist group, the Muslim Brotherhood, supported its leader Mohamed Morsi and rejected President al Sisi’s (photo right) call for co-existence.

He has ensured Iran has a nuclear weapon in one of the craziest international deals ever negotiated. Or was it crazy? He refuses to arm the Kurds who own the only boots on the ground fighting ISIS for fear of upsetting Turkey who, along with the Saudis, has given safe passage and support to ISIS.
He has alienated the only serious ally the West has in the Middle East in Israel.

He has altered US Military reports to falsely show America is winning the war against ISIS. He refuses to use the words Islam and terrorism in the same sentence. He has stacked his Administration

with Muslims and Muslim sympathisers. He knows and uses the ISIS hand signal of dominance. Oh I could go on and on, but it evokes the old adage of, “If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck.... it’s probably a duck”.

So Ben Carson has made a stand and he now polls on a par with the formerly skyrocketing, and now levelling out, Donald Trump! Carson knows what blind innocent Americans don’t know: Islam is the only faith that supersedes and overrides all else an adherent does and thinks. That's what Carson is trying to say....that’s what Islam IS!

FACT: If you are a Muslim you come as a total package; there is no moderate or radical in Islam.......the hate is built in.

The Way I See It.......and the way I have wrote it in my blog postings the past 5 years....unlike Christianity, Islam IS the military, Islam IS the education process, Islam IS the treasury, Islam IS the judiciary, Islam IS the law (Shariah), Islam IS the subjugation of women and girls, Islam IS crucifixions, the severing of limbs and beheadings. Islam IS FGM, Islam IS the one and only Caliphate that must eventually rule over all Western infidels.

If you deny any of the above you are an apostate of Islam... the worst of all possible sins, because in the Islamic faith EVERYONE is born a Muslim. That's why there is no baptising of infants, it's already a fait accompli. Is this the reason Obama has set the entire world on fire? No-one could have caused this much damage accidentally.

Has the softly-spoken, non-politician Carson tapped into the suffering, silent majority? He knows the Koran, Shariah and the Hadith well. Is he referring to a Muslim operative who has already infiltrated the White House? It certainly appears so. And Putin certainly agrees with him.

The other night, as the sun set over Washington, if you asked President Obama who had been brave that day, he’d have said himself, not the students who declared themselves Christians in those Oregon College classrooms knowing they were going to die because of it. Barack Obama, after all, had stood up to Republicans and the NRA — real bravery.

In 1,299 words, the President never condemned the killings. Before he spoke, officials confirmed that the shooter targeted his victims based on their religion. In 1,299 words, the son-of-a-bitch never called for religious tolerance.

Before we knew who the gunman was or what his motive was, the President of the United States rushed to the podium to make the case for gun control. He even admitted he was politicizing it and that the shooting should be politicized.

In his speech, the President said, “We talked about [gun control] after Columbine and Blacksburg, after Tucson, after Newtown, after Aurora, after Charleston.”

But the President did not politicize the shooting in Virginia when it was a black, gay man who killed the reporters. The President did not politicize the shooting in Chattanooga when it was a Muslim radical who did the shooting. The President did not politicize the shooting of the Muslim family in North Carolina when it turned out the shooter was a gay-rights supporting atheist Obama voter.

No, he and the political left ran from those stories as quickly as possible. “Look over there!!!” the “Look at this story,” they declared as soon as the shooter did not meet the demographics the media demanded that allowed them to press for gun control or talk about racism.

These Leftist Lame-Stream media bastards moved on from those stories as quickly as they moved on from the story of the gunman at the Discovery Channel offices who was killing liberals for not doing enough to stop global warming. They moved on from those stories as quickly as they moved on from the gunman at the Family Research Council who was a gay rights activist intent on killing Christians.

Before the identity of the shooter was public this time, however, the President rushed as quickly as possible to make the case for gun control. He wanted to get out the gun control story as quickly as possible, just in case the facts became inconvenient to his politics and the left had to again move on quickly.

What is so outrageous is that this time the President decided to politicize the situation after we already knew that the shooter had demanded the victims declare their religion before gunning them down. But the President never mentioned that. He never mentioned religious tolerance.

Last week, the President told Pope Francis that we should all be able to live our faith in the public square. Meanwhile his administration and allies continue to harass Christians and sue them. Now someone goes into a school, demands to know the religion of the victims, and guns them down. But instead of calling for religious tolerance – as he would have if the shooter had been a Muslim – the President instead demands gun control.

But in calling for “common sense” gun control, the President cannot name any gun control laws that would have stopped the shooting. In the same way Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe (photo right) demanded background checks after the Virginia shooting only to find out the shooter had had a background check, the President cannot name any gun laws, other than curtailing gun ownership, that would have stopped the shooting.

That is why, time and again, gun control arguments fall flat. But men like Barack Obama keep trying.

The Way I See It......instead of the President politicizing the deaths of around a dozen Americans, killed for professing their religion, he should first answer a simple question: why are there more mass shootings like this under his watch than under George W. Bush’s watch? I really don’t think the man presiding over a cultural suicide should really be the man who leads on this issue, particularly when his “common sense gun control” policy solutions would not have stopped this tragedy.
Evil is on the rise. It is real. It is active. It is global. And the President more often than not coddles it instead of confronting it. So perhaps we should just go back to ignoring the jackass.

Noted Middle East Forum scholar Dr. Wolfgang G. Schwanitz responds to criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Schwanitz, a leading expert on ties between Nazis and Islamists, says al-Hajj Amin al-Husaini was instrumental in the decision to exterminate the Jews of Europe.

"The Mufti of Jerusalem al-Hajj Amin al-Husaini was a war criminal whose collaboration with Adolf Hitler played a key role in the Holocaust," says Dr. Wolfgang G. Schwanitz, the Hochberg Family Writing Fellow at the Middle East Forum.

Philadelphia, PA – Last week Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has drawn criticism for comments about the role of al-Hajj Amin al-Husaini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, in conceiving and perpetrating the Holocaust. Indeed, leading Nazi aides testified that al-Husaini was one of the instigators of the genocide. In his Damascus memoirs, the mufti admitted how he advised Hitler and other leading Nazis, and that he acquired full knowledge of the ongoing mass murder.

Middle East Forum scholar, historian, and author Wolfgang G. Schwanitz added, "It is a historical fact that the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem al-Hajj Amin al-Husaini was an accomplice whose collaboration with Adolf Hitler played an important role in the Holocaust. He was the foremost extra-European adviser in the process to destroy the Jews of Europe."
Although Schwanitz hadn't previously heard the dialogue between Hitler and al-Husaini as told by Netanyahu, he says it is absurd to ignore the role played by al-Hajj Amin al-Husaini, a war criminal, in encouraging and urging Hitler and other leading Nazis to exterminate European Jewry.
According to the foremost expert on the ties between Nazis and Islamists, there is much evidence that al-Husaini's primary goal was blocking all of the ways out of Europe. He pushed Hitler to slam the last doors of a burning house shut.

At their meeting [on November 28, 1941, Hitler and al-Husaini] concluded the pact of Jewish genocide in Europe and the Middle East, and immediately afterward, Hitler gave the order to prepare for the Holocaust. The next day invitations went out to thirteen Nazis for the Wannsee Conference to begin organizing the logistics of this mass murder.

The highly acclaimed book also examined the Grand Mufti's efforts to prevent Europe's Jews from finding refuge in the land that would become Israel:

And since any European Jews let out of Europe might later go to Palestine, al-Husaini made it clear that if Hitler wanted Muslims and Arabs as allies he must close Europe's exits to Jews. At the same time, al-Husaini and Arab rulers also told Britain that if it wanted to keep Arabs and Muslims from being enemies, it must close entrance to Palestine to all Jews. By succeeding on both fronts, al-Husaini contributed to the Holocaust doubly, directly, and from the start.

The Way I See It.......to get to the truth of Middle Eastern reality, one should read about what the Middle East Forum has to say about it. The Middle East Forum, a Philadelphia-based think tank, is dedicated to defining American interests in the Middle East and protecting America from Islamist threats. It achieves its goals through intellectual, activist, and philanthropic efforts. For more information, visit http://www.meforum.org.

Have you ever seen a Muslim hospital in your country?? Have you ever seen a bush fire brigade with Muslims helping to put out the fires?
Have you ever seen a canteen manned by Muslims supplying tea and coffee to victims or workers at any disaster?
How many Muslim sponsored Surf Life Saving Clubs have you seen?
Have you heard a Muslim orchestra?
Have you seen a Muslim band march in a parade?
Have you witnessed any Muslim charity?
Have you ever seen any Muslim infastructure other than a Mosque or Muslim only school?
Have you shaken hands with a Muslim Girl Scout?
Have you seen a Muslim Candy Striper?
The list can go on and on.
The answer is no, you have not. Just ask yourself WHY ???
They demand everything we are stupid enough to give them but never give anything in return.

Muslim-lover Barack Obama, during his Cairo speech, said:

"I know, too, that Islam has always been a part of America 's history."

AN AMERICAN CITIZEN'S RESPONSE
Dear Mr. Obama:
Were those Muslims that were in America when the Pilgrims first landed?
Funny, I thought they were Native American Indians.
Were those Muslims that celebrated the first Thanksgiving day?
Sorry again, those were Pilgrims and American Indians.
Can you show me one Muslim signature on the: United States Constitution?
Declaration of Independence?
Bill of Rights?
Didn't think so.
Did Muslims fight for this country's freedom from England ? No.
Did Muslims fight during the Civil War to free the slaves in America??? No,they did not.
In fact, Muslims to this day are still the largest traffickers in human slavery. Your own half-brother, a devout Muslim, still advocates slavery himself, even though Muslims of Arabic descent refer to black Muslims as "pug nosed slaves."

Says a lot of what the Muslim world really thinks of your family's "rich Islamic heritage," doesn't it

Mr. Obama? But you know where your heart lies, don't you? You told them in your Cairo speech and the news media was too stupid to pick it up and expose you.

Where were Muslims during the Civil Rights era of this country? Not present.
There are no pictures or media accounts of Muslims walking side by side with Martin Luther King, Jr. or helping to advance the cause of Civil Rights.

Where were the Muslims during America’s Woman's Suffrage era?
Again, not present. In fact, devout Muslims demand that women are subservient to men in the Islamic culture. So much so, that often they are beaten for not wearing the 'hajib' or for talking to a man who is not a direct family member or their husband. Yep, the Muslims are all for women's rights, aren't they?

Where were Muslims during World War II? They were aligned with Adolf Hitler.

The Muslim grand mufti himself met with Adolf Hitler, reviewed the troops and accepted support from the Nazi's in killing Jews.

Finally, Mr. Obama, where were Muslims on Sept. 11th, 2001?
If they weren't flying planes into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon or a field in Pennsylvania killing nearly 3,000 people on our own soil, they were rejoicing in the Middle East.

No one can dispute the pictures shown from all parts of the Muslim world celebrating on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC and other cable news network's that day.
Strangely, the very "moderate" Muslims who's arses you bent over backwards to kiss in Cairo Egypt on June 4th were stone cold silent post 9-11.

To many Americans, their silence has meant approval for the acts of that day.
And THAT, Mr. Obama, is the "rich heritage" Muslims have here in America
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Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot to mention the Barbary Pirates. They were Muslims.
And now we can add November 5, 2009 - the slaughter of American soldiers at Fort Hood by a Muslim major who is a doctor and a psychiatrist who was supposed to be counseling soldiers returning from battle in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In his 2006 speech at the University of Regensburg in Bavaria, Pope Benedict XVI quoted a 14th-century dialogue between Byzantine emperor, Manuel II Paleologus, and a Persian Muslim scholar:

“Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.”

Yes, that more accurately sums up the Islamic contribution(s) to mankind as the product of Muhammad's evil empire.

The book “1001 Muslim Myths and Historical Revisions,” by Pamela Geller, Breitbart News, July 26, 2015 states:''CNN last Wednesday rana viciously mendacious ''article'' dragging out the “Muslim inventions” myth – yet again. This is hardly new; I wrote of it in 2012.''

Now CNN is pushing a new book that is based on 1001 Muslim Inventions, a traveling museum exhibit that has appeared all over the West to huge acclaim from the likes of the uninformed idiot Prince Charles. It has indoctrinated hundreds of thousands of children into a rosy and romanticized view of Islam that makes them less appreciative of their own culture’s achievements and more complacent about Islamization in the West.

And now we see historical revisionism take on a new life, as history is scrubbed and manufactured Muslim myths are presented as fact. “1001 Muslim Inventions” is almost unfailingly dishonest. It

touts surgery as one of the top 10 Muslim inventions, but in reality, surgery began in the Neolithic era and was widely practiced in ancient Greece. Likewise, the fabulous coffee plant was discovered in Christian Ethiopia.

Next on CNN’s list is flight: “Abbas ibn Firnas was the first person to make a real attempt to construct a flying machine and fly.” Abbas ibn Firnas was a man who threw on a pair of manmade wings and attempted to fly, but only ended up breaking his back. That makes this dumbass the father of the flying machine?
Get real!

Fourth in CNN’s top ten Muslim inventions is the university: “In 859 a young princess named Fatima al-Firhi founded the first degree-granting university in Fez, Morocco.” The first university? Tell it to the Jews, a people 6,000 years old, with education as the cornerstone of their culture. And Nalanda University of India dates back to the fifth century.

Then comes algebra, and this claim, as well as the others, is utter nonsense. A Muslim, Abu Ja’far Muhammad ibn Musa, is often described as the originator of algebra. But Abu Ja’far lived between 780 and 850 AD; algebra initiated in ancient Babylon, Egypt, and Athens, 2,500 years before that phony Abu Ja’far was born.

Next is optics, which also began long before Islam, in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, where lenses were developed by artisans working from theories the Greek philosophers. The Babylonians started astronomy through the relationship of astrology.

CNN even has the audacity to claim music as a Muslim invention, despite the fact that Islamic law stupidly forbids music. Are they kidding? Where are the Muslim Bachs, Beethovens, and Gershwins? What about Jewish music, which goes back over 5,000 years? Muhammad wasn’t even a twinkle in his father’s eye.

CNN also claims the toothbrush for Islam, saying that Muhammad, whom they refer to, of course, as “the prophet,” (who actually never prophesised anything in his miserable life) popularized the use of the first toothbrush in around 600. Using a twig from the Meswak tree, he cleaned his teeth and freshened his breath, they say. Muhammad was the first man to use an object to clean his teeth? Colour me laughing. In reality, the bristle toothbrush wasn’t invented until 1498, in China.

And the crank, the next item on CNN’s list (which was compiled by a crank indeed), dates back to Spain in the fifth century BC. The hospital, the last item on CNN’s list, goes back to ancient Rome.

With the advent of now daily jihad terror plots, arrests, and attacks, the Islamic/leftist machine is in fifth gear. Teen Vogue, the BBC, the Huffington Post, the New York Times, Newsweek and all the mainstream media outlets are churning out lies, myths and Islamic supremacist narratives to counter reality. Damn the truth, full speed ahead to brainwashing the public.

It’s endless, this sharia scrubbing of history. It’s why our children are not taught true Islamic history in the public schools: the jihadi wars, cultural annihilations, and enslavements, the female inequalities or why the hundreds of millions of victims of Islamic wars have disappeared from world history courses.

Pamela Geller (photo left) exposes the reality that many of the inventions the Muslims take credit for are the inventions of the peoples, countries and lands they conquered. The booty from their conquests wasn’t only tangible gold, women, and monies, but intellectual theft as well. The Syrian Christians gave Mohammad and his illiterates the alphabet.

The first Arabic-language medical treatise was written by a Christian priest and translated into Arabic by a Jewish doctor in 683. The first hospital was founded in Baghdad during the Abbasid caliphate — not by a Muslim, but a Nestorian Christian. A pioneering medical school was founded at Gundeshapur in Persia — by Assyrian Christians. The bottom line: the inventions and discoveries attributed to the Muslim world were actually stolen from conquered peoples.

The Way I See It.......CNN, by spreading this nonsense, shows itself yet again to be more interested in politically correct fiction than news. “1001 Muslim Inventions” is not history, but propaganda – and par for the course for the mainstream media these days.

EDITOR'S NOTE:Pamela Geller is the President of the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), publisher
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Friday, October 16, 2015

Almost all the media commentary on the invasion of Europe so far overlooks a critical point.
The illegal immigrants in no way are “refugees”. Even those fleeing, say, Syria, were in relative safety once they’d crossed the border into Turkey, which, incidentally, is a country sharing the Muslim faith of most Syrians.

But since then, the immigrants have moved to Greece, then Macedonia and then Serbia to reach Hungary. Even then the vast majority want to move on - through Austria or the Czech Republic to their ultimate goal, Germany, the richest of all the countries on this trek.

I don’t blame them, of course, but nor do I blame Germany for saying it does not have a responsibility to accept these hundreds of thousands of people crossing its borders.

Nor should journalists here keep talking about some particular responsibility of the West to accept Syrians, given the West has done nothing to create the Syrian civil war, and has recently intervened (ineffectually) to stop the Islamic State terrorists causing many of the Syrians to flee.

There is no easy way for Europe to respond, but ultimately it must involve maintaining strong borders, stopping the boats to Greece and Italy, and sending armed forces to stop Third World war, and some advice and aid to end poverty. Oddly enough, this is exactly the policy of Tony Abbott. It is that, or Europe will admit new tribes of people who will inevitably clash with Europe’s own.

Hungary's Prime Minister puts the matter with a bluntness shocking to the secular media, but in a way which I suspect will prove prophetic:

“Those arriving have been raised in another religion, and represent a radically different culture. Most of them are not Christians, but Muslims,” Mr. Orban (photo left) wrote… “This is an important question, because Europe and European identity is rooted in Christianity."

At a separate news conference in which he faced reporters alone, he reiterated the theme of his article, that Europe was at risk of being “overrun” and had to shut its borders. The Hungarian prime minister argued that European countries had no obligation to accept most of the migrants, as “the overwhelming majority of people are not refugees because they are not coming from a war-stricken area."

Mr. Orban went on to invoke Hungary’s historical experience as part of the Ottoman Empire, which ended more than three centuries ago, as an explanation for its current opposition to Muslim immigrants.

“I have to say that when it comes to living together with Muslim communities, we are the only ones who have experience because we had the possibility to go through that experience for 150 years.

“We don’t want to criticize France, Belgium, any other country,” he said, but “we think all countries have a right to decide whether they want to have a large number of Muslims in their countries. If they want to live together with them, they can. We don’t want to and I think we have a right to decide that we do not want a large number of Muslim people in our country.

We do not like the consequences of having a large number of Muslim communities that we see in other countries, and I do not see any reason for anyone else to force us to create ways of living together in Hungary that we do not want to see.”

It is not a pretty message. The consequences of ignoring it could be far uglier.

UPDATE To the excitement of fellow Leftists in Fairfax News, the sanctimonious New York Times, in its privileged safety of New York, warns the world not to adopt the policies of the one government that has the answer Europe desperately wants - policies that have stopped boats, stopped drownings and saved billions, while still admitting true refugees:

Some European officials may be tempted to adopt the hard-line approach Australia has used to stem a similar tide of migrants. That would be unconscionable. Prime Minister Tony Abbott (right) has overseen a ruthlessly effective effort to stop boats packed with migrants, many of them refugees, from reaching Australia’s shores. His policies have been inhumane, of dubious legality and strikingly at odds with the country’s tradition of welcoming people fleeing persecution and war.

Note the sneaky omission of inconvenient facts:

Military personnel force vessels carrying people from Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan, Eritrea and other conflict-roiled nations toward Indonesia, where most of the journeys begin.

The Way I See It.....actually, many of the passengers are from Iran and Sri Lanka, and some even from Pakistan - none of which are “conflict roiled”. Before they got on the boats to Australia they passed through multiple countries where they could have been safe, not least Indonesia itself, being mostly Muslim.

Also missing from this one-sided tirade, which could have been penned by the asshole Greens: the 1200 boat people who were lured to their deaths under the previous policy.

I note the crying over the poor three-year-old Syrian boy found drowned on the beach of Turkey. Why do not Fairfax's two-faced journalists point out that scores of such children also drowned under Labor until Tony Abbott stopped the boats?

The me-me-me generation of feminists are more interested in inventing their own victimhood than in helping real victims, says Christina Hoff-Sommers:

Christina Hoff-Sommers

This past year I visited and spoke at several US campuses, including Yale, UCLA, Oberlin, and Georgetown. I found activist feminist students passionately absorbed in the cause of liberating themselves from the grasp of the oppressive patriarchal order. Their trigger warnings, safe spaces and micro-aggression watches are all about saving themselves from the ravages of the male hegemony.

It’s not that they don’t feel bad for women in places like Iran or Yemen. They do. But they believe they share a similar fate… But too often, today’s gender activists are not fighting injustice, but fighting phantom epidemics and nursing petty grievances. Two leading feminist hashtags of 2015 are #FreeTheNipples and #LovetheLines. The former is a campaign to desexualise women’s breasts; the latter promotes stretch-mark acceptance. If the imprisoned women of Iran and Afghanistan were free to tweet, what would they say about these struggles?It's so pathetic isn't it?

We are under attack from the patriarchy, hostage to a rape culture, all at risk of domestic violence, held down by the glass ceiling, and not paid as much as men for equal work.

Pity none of this is true, and in fact women in Australia have more freedoms and equality than at any time in our history.

So when a brute alpha male like Mark Latham, the maverick former Labor leader, stomps through the cosy media consensus to slay these lies, the entire apparatus of victim feminism rises up against him.

He gives back twice as good as he gets, and so the professional offenderati who gathered at the Melbourne Writers’ Festival on Saturday to hear him talk got the vapours when he peppered his home truths with foul-mouthed aggression…

Then there was idiot Mamamia.com writer and social researcher Rebecca Huntley, who recounted her “terrifying” encounter with Latham the morning after his star turn in

Melbourne. (Photo of the two on the right)

By her own admission Huntley had once written that Latham, who takes care of his three children while his wife works, was a “stay at home psycho”. Why did she think that she could write something so malicious and unfounded and suffer no consequences?
He confronted me about the comment .He stood very close to me and said, “How would you like it if I called you a deranged slut?"

“Afterwards I was shaken,'' Huntley wrote. “How do I get my kids out of the hotel without encountering him again? I was genuinely concerned he might have more nasty things to say.” Maybe she should have thought of that before she called him a “stay at home psycho”.

The Way I See It......women have been so introspective in their own Western world of perceived slights and discrimination that I wonder why isn’t there a fight against ISIS a feminist issue? Why this near-silence in the face of the most horrific was on women seen in our lifetime? Amazing!

ABC’s Four Corners aptly revealed such ghastly crimes against women that any feminist who does not demand action betrays their deepest principles.

How much more evidence do you need? Global warming is a Faith, impervious to reason:

Reporter Paul Kelly

Australian Reporter Paul Kelly: ''How, as shadow treasurer, could you allow the leader to commit the party to the 50 per cent renewable energy target without any framework of analysis, without any work done on the impact of the scheme, the costs, any analysts whatsoever? '' Labor dimwit MP Chris Bowen: ''Well, because I believe in ­renewable energy.''

LABOR’S ambitious plan to cut carbon emissions by 40 to 60 per cent by 2030 would deliver a devastating blow to the economy, stripping a massive $600 billion from economic growth over the next 15 years, its own modelling commissioned in government has revealed.

The emissions cut would also cost tens of thousands of jobs and would likely lead to the closure of all 37 coal-fired power stations in Australia.
The shocking predictions are contained in a 2013 Treasury and Department of Industry and Climate Change modelling report.

Labor’s plan, which the party adopted last month at its national conference in Melbourne, would have to assume a carbon price of $209 a tonne by 2030, according to analysis of the models. It would also push wholesale power prices up 78 per cent over the next 15 years, radically increasing power bills for homeowners and businesses.

THE 2013 Mitigation Scenarios report by ­Treasury and a string of others is the report that Labor in government didn’t want anyone to see… Labor will lose this argument — again — if it isn’t upfront about what its policies will cost.

If Labor wants to create a welfare-dependent underclass of Australians whose former industries have been rendered non-viable by government legislation, this is exactly the right way to go about it.

UPDATE
But for all the crazy demonization of coal, the rest of the world is gobbling more of the stuff:

A new study by the prestigious National Academy of Sciences detects an unmistakable “coal renaissance” under way that shows this mineral of fossilized carbon has again become “the most important source of energy-related emissions on the global scale.”
Coal is expanding rapidly “not only in China and India but also across a broad range of developing countries — especially poor, fast-growing countries mainly in Asia,” the study finds.

Or take Turkey:

Over 80 new coal-fired power stations are proposed in Turkey, the biggest coal rush in the world after China and India.

A rational word from the U.S.:

Carly Fiorina, Republican presidential candidate, and an outsider tip to be the party’s nominee for vice president:

The scientists that tell us that climate change is real and caused by man made activity, also tell us that a single nation acting alone can make no difference at all. So, when I see a state like California destroy lives and livelihoods with environmental regulations that will make no difference at all to climate change, when I see the Obama administration take that same regulation and apply it nationally – it will make not difference at all, yet we’re destroying people’s lives and livelihoods – I wonder, why are we doing this? Why are we doing this when it won’t have any impact?

So I think the answer to this problem is innovation, not regulation. But I must say, it angers me when liberals say “I’m prepared for you to lose your job in the name of sending a signal to…” whom? China could care less? In fact, China is delighted that we are not spending any time or energy figuring out clean coal, because they’re going to go do it.

The Way I See It.......Bjorn Lomborg, a top Danish Economist researching the terrible cost that global warming hysteria is costing, cites The Conversation (and specifically a media academic) as well as the Guardian as organisations and people which had peddled false information. When he pointed these out, no corrections were made. Even two Australian Universities refused to have him set up a think-tank on their campus. So much for free inquiry and speech.

You see, being wrong when you are a warming alarmist is just evidence of an excess of virtue. What’s to apologise for?

The below summary of 6-year
reign in the White House is by far the best I've ever read as it squarely hits
the nail on the head.

And it took a black female reporter writing
it to make it as effective as it is.

A white man's account would be instantly criticized by the liberal media
as pure racism. But, how can anyone scream Racist when an exacting description
of the Obamas is penned by a well- known journalist of colour?

BEST SUMMATION OF BARACK AND MICHELLE OBAMA EVER!

(Mychal Massie is a respected writer and talk show host in Los Angeles
..)

The other evening on my twitter, a person asked me why I didn't like the
Obamas. Specifically I was asked: "I have to ask, why do you hate the
Obamas? It seems personal, not policy related. You even dissed (disrespect)
their Christmas family picture."The truth is I do not like the Obamas, what they represent, their ideology,
and I certainly do not like his policies and legislation. I've made no secret
of my contempt for the Obamas. As I responded to the person who asked me the
aforementioned question, I don't like them because they are committed to the
fundamental change of my/our country into what can only be regarded as a
Communist state.

I don't hate them per definition, but I condemn them because they are the
worst kind of racialists, they are elitist Leninists with contempt for
traditional America. They display disrespect for the sanctity of the office he
holds, and for those who are willing to admit same, Michelle Obama's raw
contempt for white America is transpicuous.

I don't like them because they comport
themselves as emperor and empress. I expect, no I demand respect, for the
Office of President, and a love of our country and her citizens, from the
leader entrusted with the governance of same.

President and Mrs. Reagan displayed an
unparalleled love for the country and her people. The Reagans made Americans feel
good about themselves and about what we could accomplish.

Obama's arrogance by appointing 32 leftist
czars and constantly bypassing Congress is impeachable. Eric Holder is probably
the MOST incompetent and arrogant DOJ head to ever hold the job. Could you
envision President Reagan instructing his Justice Department to act like
jack-booted thugs?

Presidents are politicians, and all
politicians are known and pretty much expected to manipulate the truth, if not
outright lie. But even using that low standard,the Obamas have taken lies, dishonesty, deceit, mendacity, subterfuge and
obfuscation to new depths. They are verbally abusive to the citizenry, and they
display an animus for civility.

I do not like them because they both display
bigotry overtly, as in the case of Harvard Professor Louis Gates when he
accused the Cambridge Police of acting stupidly, and her code speak pursuant to
now being able to be proud of America. I view that statement and that mind set
as an insult to those who died to provide a country where a Kenyan, his illegal
alien relatives, and his alleged progeny could come and not only live freely,
but rise to the highest, most powerful, position in the world.

Michelle Obama is free to hate and disparage
whites because Americans of every description paid with their blood to ensure
her right to do that. I have a saying, that "the only reason a person
hides things is because they have something to hide." No President in history
has spent over a million dollars to keep his records and his past sealed. (AND
THE 'SILENT MAJORITY' REMAIN SILENT!)

And what the two of them have shared has
been proven to be lies. He lied about when and how they met, he lied about his
mother's death and problems with insurance, Michelle lied to a crowd pursuant
to nearly $500,000 bank stocks they inherited from his family. He has lied
about his father's military service, about the civil rights movement, ad
nausea. He lied to the world about the Supreme Court in a State of the Union
address.

He berated and publicly insulted a sitting
Congressman. He has surrounded himself with the

most rabidly, radical,
socialist academicians today.(DON'T FORGET THE 'DEVOTED MUSLIMS' HE'S
PLACED IN GOV'T) He opposed rulings that protected women and children that even
Planned Parenthood did not seek to support. He is openly hostile to business
and aggressively hostile to Israel.

His wife treats being the First Lady as her
personal American Express Black Card (arguably the most prestigious credit card
in the world). I condemn them because, as people are suffering, losing their
homes, their jobs, their retirements, he and his family are arrogantly showing
off their life of entitlement - as he goes about creating and fomenting class
warfare.

I don't like them, and I neither apologize
nor retreat from my public condemnation of them and of his policies. We should
condemn them for the disrespect they show our people, for his willful and
unconstitutional actions pursuant to obeying the Constitutional parameters he
is bound by, and his willful disregard for Congressional authority.

Dislike for them has nothing to do with the
color of their skin; it has everything to do with their behavior, attitudes,
and policies. And I have open scorn for their constantly playing the race card.
I could go on, but let me conclude with this. I condemn in the strongest
possible terms the media for refusing to investigate them, as they did
President Bush and President Clinton, and for refusing to label them for what
they truly are. There is no scenario known to man, whereby a white President
and his wife could ignore laws, flaunt their position, and lord over the
people, as these two are permitted out of fear for their color.

As I wrote in a syndicated column titled,
"Nero In The White House" - "Never in my life, inside or outside
of politics, have I witnessed such dishonesty in a political leader. He is the
most mendacious political figure I have ever witnessed. Even by the low standards
of his Presidential predecessors, his narcissistic, contumacious arrogance is
unequaled. Using Obama as the bar, Nero would have to be elevated to sainthood.

The Way I See It.....many in America wanted to be proud when the
first person of color was elected President, but instead, they have been
witness to a congenital liar, a First Lady who has been ashamed of America her
entire life, failed policies, intimidation, and a commonality hitherto not
witnessed in political leaders. He and his wife view their life at our expense
as an entitlement - while America 's people go homeless, hungry and unemployed. Disgusting !

About Me

I live up to my name and speak frankly and for the silent majority so as to counter-balance the leftist, political correctness that pervades my country. I do not hold any legitimate racist feeling against anyone but I will always try to put crossed-referenced information on current events in a proper perspective that will allow for better understanding and discussions among people. My use of colourful language only adds to getting my point across. It's still a free country as far as I can see.
To put more it directly:
Freedom of speech is the paramount freedom. Without it, we struggle to exercise our other freedoms. With it, we can fight for those freedoms. It may be offensive, insulting and make some governments uncomfortable, but if this is the price to be paid for living in a society where all claims are open to question, then it is a price worth paying.
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